Word: speakes
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...apartheid, South Africa had no film industry to speak of. Filmmakers had either been co-opted by the white regime for propaganda or driven underground. Foreign filmmakers - whose big budgets can help prop up smaller local industries - had stayed away. With apartheid gone and sanctions lifted, that changed. Television commercial producers from around the globe discovered that Cape Town combined a spectacular location with skilled, cheap crews. Movie makers found that South Africa's diverse landscape - savannah to desert, winelands to white-sand beaches - could stand in for almost anywhere, while the people of the Rainbow Nation, with a carefully...
...collaboration. “We really love working together. It’s insane how much we love working together.” “You’re just an excuse,” he added jokingly to the audience. After each selection, Pinsky paused to speak with Urbina and Moses about how to proceed, giving the whole affair an impromptu feel. “The improvisational style of the music unlocked the internal energy of the poem,” said The Advocate’s president Sanders I. Bernstein ’10, who is also...
...historians find the story entirely plausible. Hans-Hermann Hertle from the Potsdam-based Center for Research on Contemporary History tells TIME that he had "already wondered about that 15 years ago." Hertle cites the fact that an American reporter present at the press conference, when attempting to speak, was cut short by Schabowski, who then allowed the Italian journalist to ask his question first, as an indication that Ehrmann's question had been prompted by the party. But neither Ehrmann, Potschke nor Schabowski confirmed Hertle's suspicion back then...
...proceedings of "Law and Order." The court allowed the prosecution to present its opening arguments, for example, even though the newly appointed defense attorney had not yet read the 11,000-page charge sheet. (The judge acknowledged that he still hasn't finished the whole thing.) Qasab does not speak English, but there is no Urdu translator to explain the proceedings to him, and his request for an Urdu version of the charge sheet was denied. Most Indian courts leave it to the defense attorney to explain to their client what's happening...
...mainland. "Hu is still in a kind of limbo or political purgatory," Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China scholar at the University of Hong Kong, said this week in an interview published in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. "He is not totally taboo and people can speak about him but at the same time his status remains ambiguous...